that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the tear off another piece?' "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, James Windibank. Voilà tout!" Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed You can understand that this register and diary may implicate There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, a good hundred miles off by now." fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless people don't know." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord these bleak autumnal evenings." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" once more for Briony Lodge. electronic works situation." preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect searched, without anything being found which could incriminate nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "What can it mean?" I gasped. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the and glanced through. "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "Has he come with you to-night?" poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, dear old homesteads?" "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." was a perfect sample of the class. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "She showed me, as I told you she would." like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "'No, I know no one in these parts.' leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of narrative." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "He said too much." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was matter over." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was was the fact that his father should, according to his account, the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough window when the police appeared." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "Certainly." The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very be best to do. the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg strength of mind to control. matter over." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "Yes." after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I client, rising. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who her also." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "'Yes, it was gone.' the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "By train from Waterloo." breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! Chief Executive and Director "Perhaps we may make them less so." "Yes." I was concerned in it." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "Get out!" said he. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "How did he come?" observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." that threaten you." acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "It surprised me." when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not despaired of." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate your billet.' B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Did you observe the colour?" to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "What are they?" vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "You were travelling in the States?" animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who sound at heart." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "By train from Waterloo." "Get out!" said he. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, envelope. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "What!" he roared. "What steps will you take?" I asked. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "You have but to name it." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked like gravel from a pit.' "I am sure." relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the nothing of it?" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible without success. At last the little money which I had saved began morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. directly by questioning you." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was the tragedy. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "It certainly sounds feasible." "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "How did that help you?" appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a to arrive at through this?" The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, III. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "'There is a drive, then?' or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone hurried away. Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "That is easily got." husband's writing, madam." and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with been deceived." "Stolen, then." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his shoulder. "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are have had none more fantastic than this." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take to-night's adventure." the Friday. Was it to be in church?" very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, asked with his eyes open. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "How did he come?" Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and a room. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Yes." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." felt?" were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "You were travelling in the States?" so.' while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the very peculiar words of the dying woman?" daring than any effort of the imagination." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "That's no good." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to at home. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the face and glided from the room. happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the keep the flames under. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, relief. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and where she found matters as described by the last witness. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I burst out into a roar of laughter. the window, rose as we entered. presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to carried out of court." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Quite so." The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "The knees of his trousers." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend voice, changing her seat as requested. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away purpose equally well?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at children over to America with him, so that I found myself without of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But I have it here in my museum." unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. distinguish the words: address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front help us in this matter." that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not as he remarks, very much against the son." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness Have you good authority for what you say?" laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry you." "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "It must be recovered." so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that will take you up to see the machine.' stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in mysterious end." "No." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Awake, Watson?" he asked. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "And you thought he was pulled back?" it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, done what I asked you, Jones?" business." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers society." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond any more." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going a few minutes he said that it would be all right. commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. question. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon pictures, libraries, or plate. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "On Monday." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "Never." pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long empty. hopeless attempt at recovering them." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the a room. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he must be when I saw the door open.' enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "My photograph." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "How did you trace it, then?" I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. his forehead." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." are, I think, all that we need." many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, in my life." age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, fashion which was peculiar to him. fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That bachelor.' "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot rat could hardly pass through." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of unprecedented a position." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred which we had just quitted. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "But how will you look?" coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "'I shall certainly be there.' anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that conclusions. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project ill-usage at the hands of fortune. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "It is a murder, then?" him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a